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From: mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu (Jeff E Mandel MD MS)
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Subject: Re: RFD: comp.sys.handhelds.hp48
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Date: 15 May 91 14:05:04 GMT
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1) Despite the strongly held views of some that there is a common interest
amongst all HP calculator users, there has not been a groundswell of HP28, 41,
etc. users saying that they need to be in with the HP48 users. Having
previously attempted to get support for .hp2848, and having failed, I believe
that this is not the option most likely to satisfy the majority. 
2) I believe that it will be impossible to understand what other machines,
architectures, or broad classes of machines need to have new groups until we
have dealt with the volume of HP48 traffic. No one can contest the fact that
the major volume of postings to this group over the last year have been HP48;
that a significant portion of the readership of this group have as their main
interest HP48 issues, and that anyone who is not interested in the HP48 has a
hard time in this group.
3) I know that the HP95 is a new hot interest, and we may need a group for it
some day, but to do so now is premature. There is not another machine whose
volume of traffic has even come close to the level where a news group of its
own is warranted.

I am sorry that the majority of you are having to read so many rehashings of
harrangues from the last discussion, but unfortunately there are those who have
deemed it necessary. Aside from the HP IR printer issue (which probably can be
resolved by application of common sense), are there any compelling reasons why
an HP48-only group will cause problems now?

 
Jeff E Mandel MD MS
Asst. Professor of Anesthesiology
Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, LA
mandel@vax.anes.tulane.edu